Retail

UK Retailers Find International Expansion Demands Supply Chain Efficiency

November 5, 2013

International expansion has become an established route to generating revenue growth for UK retailers, but the logistics of moving products across the globe can often put a strain on efficiency and profits.

RFID's Role in Today's Supply Chain

November 4, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Use of RFID tags at the item level is upstaging case and pallet tagging among many retailers, says Tom O'Boyle, director of RFID at Barcoding Inc. O'Boyle explains the benefits derived from item-level tagging and looks at other innovative applications for RFID, including hybrid systems that mix active and passive tags.

India Holds Great Promise for Growth in Market for Cloud ERP

November 4, 2013

ARC Advisory Group

The market for cloud-based enterprise resource planning systems, which eliminate on-premise implementation with its upfront capital expenditures for hardware and software, is ripe for growth in India, according to research from ARC Advisory Group.

Too Many SKUs? How Clorox Avoids Supply-Chain Chaos

November 4, 2013

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Life in the laundry room used to be so simple.

Management Methods for Supply Chains That Continue to Grow in Complexity

November 1, 2013

ThomasNet

Traditional management approaches must be replaced or at least altered to reflect the evolving business market, said Kim Doyle, a senior manager at Plante Moran, a consulting firm.

Most Businesses' Sales, Operations Planning Processes Still Spreadsheet-based or Rely on ERP, Survey Finds

November 1, 2013

Logility

Recent research shows 80 percent of the consumer goods companies surveyed have a formal sales and operations planning (S&OP) process in place, yet more than half rely on spreadsheets while another 26 percent stated they either utilize a homegrown solution or their ERP system.

Extended Product Attribute Guidelines Introduced for Retail Industry E-commerce

November 1, 2013

GS1 US

New implementation guidelines for leveraging GS1 standards in apparel and general merchandise ecommerce have been released by GS1 US. The Voluntary Guidelines for Exchanging Extended Attributes for eCommerce were developed in collaboration with more than 15 retailers, vendors and solution providers participating in the GS1 US Apparel and General Merchandise Initiative and are available at www.gs1us.org/eCommerceExtendedAttributes.

Target is Latest to Roll Out In-Store Pickup of Online Purchases

October 31, 2013

CRM Daily

Target is rolling out a service that allows customers to order products online and then pick them up at its stores as the discounter seeks to cater to tech-savvy, time-pressured customers.

Brazilian Grocer Uses RFID to More Accurately Weigh Fish, Other Products in Its Cold Chain

October 30, 2013

RFID Journal

Grupo PÃ£o-de-AÃ§Ãºcar (GPA) has found an RFID solution to a problem that previously affected both logistics and accounting for its PÃ£o-de-AÃ§Ãºcar and Extra supermarket chains. The distribution of fish, as well as other products in its cold chain, presents significant challenges for the retailer. After all, fish do not have identical weights, and businesses work with average values per unit, resulting in differences between what theoretically was delivered to a store, what was really sold and the expected revenue generated by marketing.

Finding the ROI in RFID

October 30, 2013

McLeod Williamson, RFID Business Development Manager, Zebra Technologies

Retail

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the retail industry — which comprises companies that operate physical or internet stores with diversified product lines. Learn how pharmaceutical and biotech companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.